Plants & Fungi

Archaeologists find the earliest use of nutmeg as a food ingredient and evidence of the transition to early farming practices in Indonesia.

Helpful resources to help you identify the wildflowers you come across in our region.

A specimen from a tree that once stood on the site of the new Burke Museum is the first object to be moved into the new building.

Herbarium researcher Mark Darrach helped discovered a new plant species—and plans to auction off the right to name it.

The Herbarium helps to solve a mysterious discovery—in ski boots of all places!

Graduate student John Chau discovers the origin of the Butterfly-bush, a familiar flowering plant in the Seattle area.

A Burke Museum graduate student travels to Colombia to study the tropical diversity of river-weed plants.

The Herbarium Foray Program turns 20.

A new method of sampling fossil leaves allows researchers to more accurately predict climate temperatures.